100 shareware/freeware all-stars

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what are the all-time classics? let's work it out

100. snood

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

99. OIL CAP PRO

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

98. DROD
97. Zangband

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

96. QUINN

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

95. Raptor
94. Doom (Episode I)
93. Wolf 3D (Episode I)

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

92. Tankwars (Tank Wars?)

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

(the old Tank Wars, not this dumb action game I just found on Shockwave)

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

91. One Must Fall 2097

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

90. Scorched Earth

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

scorched earth and tank wars are pretty similar right? i just dled a version called pocket tanks that i had on my pc a few years ago... ALMOST as good.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

89. commander keen!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Mac allstars:
88. Escape Velocity
87. Space Tripper
86. Cap'n Magneto
85. Dungeon of Doom
84. Geneforge

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

83: CAPTAIN COMIC

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Scorched Earth was a greatly updated version of Tank Wars, three years later. Better AI, physics, weapons etc... but they're both awesome. Strategy/Combat games, the granddaddies of games like Worms or Hogs of War. I'll bet SE at least would stand up today.

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

The fun of VGA graphics! Look, all 256 colors!

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah Escape Velocity I loved that game!

― Dan I., Monday, 26 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

That one that was Ambrosia's Centipede clone was great too. Ambrosia was like the only good thing about Mac games (although they put out a bunch that sucked too). The sound effects on their older games were great too cause they could use like for example on Maelstrom a Ren and Stimpy sample, and on the centipede one the "Hooba!" and that trippy middle-east sounding tune after the game over I think.

― Dan I., Monday, 26 September 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

95. Raptor
This is strikingly OTM.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 26 September 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Waitwait 82. BATTLE FOR WESNOTH

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 26 September 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

81-72. Whatever your ten favorite text adventures are. (I-0, Galatea, Photopia, 9:05, Lost New York, Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, Lists And Lists, Ad Verbum, Hunter In Darkness, MST3K: Detective, let's say.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 26 September 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

You sure like Adam Cadre!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 26 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

(It just occured to me that you'd really like the idea of Gostak, actually - do you?)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 26 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

71. Soldat

― NUTRASWEET GLIDER: FAMOUS INTERNET LEGEND, Monday, 26 September 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

this is awesome, i don't know 75% of these games

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

it helped to have BBS/net access in the early/mid '90s...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

WHO SAYS I DIDN'T

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

I do really love Adam Cadre. His novel was OK too.

I don't know Gostak, I don't think.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that Gostak! I haven't played it, but I read about it with great interest. I should finally give it a whirl.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

70: Heretic, Stage 1
I liked it!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Adam Cadre! I haven't seen that name in YEARS.

Oh, the people I used to talk smack with on the Internet...

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

70: Heretic, Stage 1
I liked it!

Yeah! That game was fantastic!

69: ASTROTIT.EXE (what else?)

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

68. warning forever!!!!

― Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

Was Space Tripper the same as Space Junkie? because my god I loved that game, played it until I dreamed the background and the music burbled constantly in the back of my head.

― spontine (cis), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

67. doukutsu monogatari! C'MON!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

OMG thank you for Warning Forever Allen! Fucking awesome. Noiz2sa and rRootage are very similar and also good. (66, 65, etc).

― dan i. (Dan I.), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

REMEMBER SKI FREE????????

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

^66.

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

SKI FREE OMFG.

― stoleyourbike (stoleyourbike), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

67. doukutsu monogatari! C'MON!

Fuck yes. Beating the hard ending of that game totally justified playing all the way through a second time, which I can't say about many other games.

64. N. Super-smooth puzzle/platform game. Like a cross between Lode Runner and Abuse. The sound of getting vaporized by a laser is so satisfyingly perfect that I didn't even mind the first three dozen times it happened.

― SFF (jjrj), Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Wait, Dan, where did you run into Adam? Was he haunting the alternamusic groups?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

63. Seiklus

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 8 October 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

adam cadre's rss feed: http://www.livejournal.com/users/adamcadre/rss.xml

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 8 October 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Zelda Classic

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

61. Cave Story

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

60. Megazeux